1st Quarter 2023: best records January - March

Our 25 favourite releases of 2023's first quarter... Enjoy!

Mark de Clive-Lowe, Shigeto & Melanie Charles - Hotel San Claudio (Soul Bank Music)

Insólito UniVerso - Ese Puerto Existe (Olindo)

Spectacular Diagnostics - Raw Lessons (Rucksack Records)

Yoofee - Lost Papers EP (Casa Voyager)

Gayance - Mascarade (Rhythm Section International)

Bandler Ching - Coaxial (Sdban)

João Selva - Passarinho (Underdog)

Nepumuk - Wir Haben kein Plan B aber ein Trauma (Sichtexot)

30/70 - Art Make Love (Energy Exchange)

Coultrain - Mundus (577)

José James - On & On (Rainbow Blonde)

Adja - Ironeye (Sdban)

Roger Damawuzan - Seda (Hot Casa)

LORD$ - LORD$ EP (Black Milk Music)

Talib Kweli & Madlib - Liberation 2 (Luminary)

Organic Pulse Ensemble - A Thousand Hands (2 Headed Deer)

The Lahaar - The Lahaar (Soundway)

Jelee - Soil (Rucksack Records)

LũpḁGangGang - Dopamine Overdose (Sdban)

B. Cool-Aid - Leather Blvd (Lex)

Kai Meara - Statik (XVI)

Eddie Chacon - Sundown (Stones Throw)

Marijus Aleksa - As They Are (miclithuania)

Piers Kirwan - Broken Rules (Dance Regular)

Isolde Lasoen - Oh Dear (Mayway)

Check out last year's favourites right here...